Burying the Ego’s Commentary

Metaphorical Narrative

A graveyard stretches across the mind. The headstones read like old arguments: What is the point of it all? — It will end the same way as last time. — There is no freedom without guarantees.

Ego stands there with a spade, digging fresh holes for every doubt, every uncertainty, every fear. It wants you to kneel at each grave, to mourn meaning that was never yours.

But then you notice something: the earth is soft. Each time ego drops a commentary into the soil, you can bury it deeper, not by fighting it, but by planting your own step above it. Commentary turns into compost. You walk on.

Core Insight

Ego commentary is never truth — it is machinery for meaning-making:

• “What is the point?” = strip present of value.
• “It will end like before.” = recycle past as prophecy.
• “Uncertainty equals loss.” = confuse possibility with doom.

Counter-statements don’t work, because they stay inside ego’s script. Arguing keeps the commentary alive.

Erasure comes from ownership:

• “This is not I. This is the ego voice.”
• “I am here. Ego is noise.”

From there, action becomes the burial. When you take one step, schedule one task, breathe into one presence, the commentary is neutralized. The soil covers it. Over time, these voices don’t vanish by magic — they decay through irrelevance.

Identity Shift Tie-In

The sovereign shift is from “I must reason with my commentary” → to “I bury commentary by living outside it.”

Ordinary action in presence erases ego because it distances the real “I” from the voice that claims it. Each time you refuse to equate ego’s voice with self, you reclaim ownership. Commentary shrinks, “I” expands.

This is ego composting: turning meaningless narration into fuel for growth. You are no longer the mourner in the graveyard. You are the one walking past the stones.

Saturday Experiment

1. Catch one line of ego commentary today.
2. Label it aloud: “This is ego. Not I.”
3. Instead of countering, take one direct action (send the email, do the rep, write the line).
4. Imagine that action as shoveling soil over the commentary. Burial complete.

Repeat once more today with a different commentary line.

Sunday Reflection

Journal in third person:

• Which ego commentaries try to hook them most often?
• What happened when they labeled the voice as ego and acted anyway?
• How does separating “I” from commentary change their sense of self?
• What does it feel like to walk past the graveyard instead of kneeling at it?